"The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience ... to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and starling figures."
Flannery O'Conner, novelist March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964
While this was written in the fifties. I think it could well describe our current culture. When things are truly disturbing seem natural to the culture. How do we share a different worldview without shouting. I think it is certainly something worth praying about.
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